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Re: p-doc's spanner in the works... » alexandra_k

Posted by Atticus on August 31, 2004, at 10:57:00

In reply to p-doc's spanner in the works..., posted by alexandra_k on August 30, 2004, at 23:50:00

Hold the phone. You mean there actually ARE such things as "healthy adaptively functioning human beings"? Huh. I thought they were just legends, like Bigfoot and Nessie. One thing that was always stressed to us in group is that there is no such thing as a baseline perfectly mentally healthy person -- we're all arranged along a continuum. I happen to be on one end of the bell curve, having attempted suicide. But the bottom line is: just who are they comparing you to? Everyone (and I mean everyone) has some degree of what could be termed, for want of a better phrase, psychological "abnormality." In fact, the chair of the psych department at the university where I work even thinks that attempts to create a "universal" map of the brain are a crock because of all the infinite variations from person to person. I hope things work out for you. If you do apply to a school in the US, check out our federal Americans with Disabilities Act, a national mandate that bars discrimination due to any kind of disability, and explicitly includes mental illness. I'm not sure how it applies in your situation, but my understanding would be that if you're capable of completing the degree requirements, then rejecting you out-of-hand due to your medical history would be the same as rejecting someone because he or she is in a wheelchair. You might want to check this out. Good luck! :) Atticus


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